Positive Behavior Support PBS

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Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
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PBS Mission

• The Positive Behavior Support team will
  empower teachers and other adults with the skills
  needed to improve overall classroom and school
  climate to achieve higher academic performance
  for all students.

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Guiding Principles

• All students are valuable and deserve respect.
• All students can be taught to demonstrate
  appropriate behavior.
  
• Punishment does not work to change behavior.
• School climate is a shared responsibility among
  administrators, teachers, staff,
  students and families.

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Guiding Principles

• School personnel must be willing to examine their
  own behavior as students are taught to change
  theirs.
  
• Cultural differences exist and need to be
  understood.
  
• Positive relationships between students and
  adults are key to student success.

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Supporting Social Competence ( Academic
Achievement)
OUTCOMES
Supporting Decision Making
Supporting Staff Behavior
SYSTEMS
DATA
PRACTICES
Positive Behavior Support
Supporting Student Behavior
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Tertiary Prevention Specialized Individual Syst
ems for Students with High-Risk Behavior
CONTINUUM OF SCHOOLWIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPP
ORT
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Secondary Prevention Specialized Group Systems
for Students with At-Risk Behavior
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Primary Prevention School-/Classroom- Wide Syst
ems for
All Students, Staff, Settings
80 of Students
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Foundations of PBS

• Focused on building sustainable change (3 to 5
  year process)
  
• Tailored to the unique needs of each individual
  school
  
• Data-based decision making

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Features of PBS

• Clearly defined expectations
• Teaching component for behavior
• Reinforcing appropriate behavior
• Correcting problem behavior
• Interventions for challenging behaviors

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Traditional Discipline vs. PBS

• Traditional Discipline
• Focuses on the students problem behavior
• Goal is to stop undesirable behavior, through the
  use of punishment
  
• Primarily reactive
• Positive Behavior Support
• Replaces undesired behavior with a new behavior
  or skill
  
• PBS alters environments, teaches appropriate
  skills, and rewards appropriate behavior.
  
• Primarily proactive
• Each school is assigned a PBS Coach

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Training

• Seven days of module training throughout the
  school year
  
• Universals
• Creating and teaching expectations
• Routines and procedures
• Reinforcement/effective consequences
• Strategies for students with at-risk behaviors
• Individualized support
• Ongoing staff development at schools

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Initial Outcomes
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Fuller Elementary School (cohort 1) Office
Referrals
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Hours Gained

• Assuming a minimum of 20 minutes of administrator
  time per referral, this school has gained 76
  hours of administrator time
  
• Assuming 30 minutes out of class per student for
  each referral, this school has gained 114 hours
  of instruction

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Cohort 1 Reedy Creek Elementary Office Referrals
Data
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Cohort 2Ligon Middle School Office Referral Data
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Cohort 1 Total Elementary Office Referral Data
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Hours Gained

• Assuming a minimum of 20 minutes of administrator
  time per referral, cohort 1 elementary schools
  gained 158 hours of administrator time
  
• Assuming 30 minutes out of class per student for
  each referral, these schools have also gained 238
  hours of instruction

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Elementary Suspension Data
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Instructional Hours Gained

• Assuming a minimum of one day per
• suspension, PBS schools
• have saved a total of 924
• instructional hours!

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Cohort 1 Middle Schools Short Term Suspensions

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Cohort Two Middle School Short Term Suspensions
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Tardy Data Fuquay-Varina High School
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Conclusions

• Key points
• Rigorous 3 to 5 year process
• Requires active administrative involvement
• One of the top three priorities for the school
• Ongoing faculty commitment
• Open to new ideas and embrace change

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A Final Thought

• If a student doesnt know how to read, we teach.
• If a student doesnt know how to swim, we teach.
• If a student doesnt know how to multiply, we
  teach.
  
• If a student doesnt know how to drive, we
  teach.
  
• If a student doesnt know how to behave, we

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WCPSS PBS Team
John Ringo, Coordinator Eric Chaplin Patrice Har
dy Mitzi Safrit Laura Winter Laura Phipps Javi
er Martinez